There's still the micro SD but I assume it will have the same indexing limitations as RT?!?! 19gb is a joke and 83gb isn't even enough. That will be gone in a year of normal use. Skydive is great option though. 7gb free and I purchased additional 50gb for $25/yr. Not a bad deal. SkyDrive is great, but it has limited usability. I don't think MS has really though out everything with RT and Pro storage. I never considered Pro because I won't buy a laptop with less than 500gb storage. It just limits its usefulness so much. For RT, 64gb internal and 64gb SD is perfect, in a tablet. For what they are asking for Surface Pro, you really don't get what you want or need. I purchase Vaio E Series 14" with i5, 8gb ram, 8hr battery, touch screen, 750gb HD, DVD burner, W8 Pro for clean install and all the bells and whistles for $1160. I think that is what the 128gb Pro with type cover costs give or take. My RT with remote desktop and Vaio covers everything I need and more. I think Surface Pro will sell well I just don't see people being happy with it in the long term. But with home sharing and networking capabilities it will suite a lot of peoples needs very nicely. I guess.

I think it's enough for most people. Remember that you can easily throw in a large SD card.
The majority of people aren't going to put everything on their surface pro, they still have a primary workstation (desktop/notebook) for their work.

For me I use a Thinkpad T420 for my work and presently also for my casual browsing and what not. I would get the pro for home use and only use the thinkpad for work..

I think that's the whole point. Who the **** wants to work full time on a tablet? :S

Intel's vision of hyprid/convertible machines being the future might be accurate IMHO.

Actually, me. Heavy-duty work sessions would be made more comfortable with an external display, keyboard, etc. But when I'm on the go, I don't want to have to rely on availability of any external devices or services. My device needs to be as self-contained as possible.

Actually, me. Heavy-duty work sessions would be made more comfortable with an external display, keyboard, etc. But when I'm on the go, I don't want to have to rely on availability of any external devices or services. My device needs to be as self-contained as possible.

Can anybody confirm what amount of storage is likely to be available after removing the backup partition? 19gb is not enough and you wouldn't be able to run programs from sdhc cards unless using the expensive high speed ones. I am hoping Microsoft didn't drop the ball on this like with surface rt.

64GB isn't that bad. I'm currently running Win 8 Pro on a desktop that only has a 64GB SSD and it's OK as my main system. Movies, Music and backups are all stored on a separate file server, but I have about half of Adobe's Creative Suite, Office 2013 Preview, Visual Studio Express, SC2 and Diablo 3, plus a bunch of personal files and work projects set up. That leaves about 5GB of free space. That's definitely not ideal and I would really appreciate the extra room of a 128GB drive, but it works.

128gb seems to be the only option as 19gb free isn't enough for me. It looks a quality product though and if they can get it down another $100 per model i think it can really make inroads into the highend iPad sales.

My god it doesn't ****ing compete with ipads! When are you _____________ going to get that through your heads?

the 64Gb model -should- have about 35-40Gb free as that is what the Acer W510 has which is running Windows 8. Since the Surface runs Pro it could mean there are more things taking up space. 19Gb free would indicate that MS has the entire system image on a recovery partition which can be taken out.

On my HP laptop running Windows 8 pro, WITH Office 2013 pro and with some extra software goodies and all the Windows 8 files etc. add up to 20.3 GB... So I highly doubt that the Surface pro will be using 45 GB of space without office and everything. It makes no sense whatsoever and even if we count the drivers and everything for the surface pen software, there is no way that adds up to 45 GB.

My god it doesn't ****ing compete with ipads! When are you _____________ going to get that through your heads?

the 64Gb model -should- have about 35-40Gb free as that is what the Acer W510 has which is running Windows 8. Since the Surface runs Pro it could mean there are more things taking up space. 19Gb free would indicate that MS has the entire system image on a recovery partition which can be taken out.

How does this tablet not compete with ipads? Its a tablet, the iPad is a tablet, the galaxy tab 2 is a tablet. This could potentially pull people from buying the 64GB iPad, of course somebody looking to spend $400 on a tablet isn't going to consider the surface pro but those who want the defining adobe cs6 experience on a tablet could consider this. I don't want to hulk around dslr camera gear and a laptop and the iPad i currently have is limited to a really poor photoshop experience.

For this to succeed Microsoft have to get people to stop buying iPad and the various android tablets. Laptop sales have already stalled as people buy tablets, they need to buy the MS version.

I'm going to wait until July before making a decision. February is 4 months before we see haswell laptops and Microsoft has a history of releasing their first versions as beta. On paper, the pro looks great, but in practice.... Who knows.

64Gb SSD would be anaemic for those using it seriously with a lot of applications/data. You'll be micro-managing your files and transferring via the USB/WiFi. This is a case where a NAS could come in handy. For those using professional apps like Office/Creative Suite then you'll probably be better off getting the 128Gb version. It's early days but it's likely the SSD will be standard modules soldered to the mainboard just like the Surface RT. See step 14 here: